> > When the user decides to remove a packet he installed, fink should be > > able to remove packets that are no longer necessary. > > I can see one obvious problem with such a feature, which has already bitten > me using aptitude under Debian (has this built in). Package A has a > dependency causes package B and package C to be installed. User uses package > A for a while, and during this time notices package B and starts using that > as well. They then decide to remove package A and suddenly package B also > disappears (along with package C). User gets very annoyed :) > > I had precisely this experience a while back. The wording of standard > aptitude warning "The following packages are unused and will be removed" > makes little sense to a user when they quite clearly ARE using package B (as > I was). The two workarounds are to either re-install package B (a nuisance), > or cancel the removal of A, then try again but this time explicitly tell it > to keep package B (also a nuisance). > > If this feature were to be implemented in fink, a more useful approach could > be something like this: > > % fink remove packageA > ... > The following packages were only installed because packageA depends on them: > packageB packageC > Would you like to keep any of these packages? [Y/n] y > Keep package packageB? [Y/n] y > Package packageB will be KEPT. > Keep package packageC? [Y/n] n > Package packageC will be REMOVED. > ...
Since the debfoster package does this sort of dependence-based queried-pruning already, would it be possible to take advantage of it in the fink front-end? Fang ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
